Poland of the 1970s. Agnieszka, a student filmmaker, seeks a topic for her diploma movie. The museum storage area and the overthrown sculpture of a hero of socialist labour from the 1950s, bricklayer Mateusz Birkut, offer an opening. “My idea is to follow in his footsteps” – says Agnieszka and, consequently, she reconstructs the drama of a young man who believed in socialism, became its icon and, ultimately, its victim....